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Cal is a 1984 Irish drama film directed by Pat O'Connor and starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren. Based on the novella Cal written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script, the film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where Mirren won the award for Best Actress.
Aug 24, 1984 · Cal: Directed by Pat O'Connor. With Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, John Kavanagh. A young man fraught with guilt longs to defect from the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
- (1.6K)
- Drama, Thriller, Romance
- Pat O'Connor
- 1984-08-24
The Cal of this title is a young Catholic man from Northern Ireland. He has a lot on his conscience. Not long before the story opens, he drove the car on an IRA raid that resulted in a man being murdered.
Fraught with guilt about his involvement in the murder of a Protestant police officer, Irish Republican Army member Cal (John Lynch) eschews violence and longs to defect from the organization.
- (11)
- Pat O'connor
- R
- Helen Mirren
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
- Pat O'connor
- 102 min
- 6
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Cal is a 1984 Irish drama film directed by Pat O'Connor and starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren. Based on the novella Cal written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script, the film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where Mirren won the award for Best Actress.
